Improvement in medical compounds or rheumatic ointments



' juniper berries, one ounce,

UNITED STATE$ PAT NT OFFICE,

JosEPH GEGMEN, OF NEWYORE'N. Y.

IMPROVEMENTJN MEDlCAL COMPOUNDSIORRHEUMATIC OlNTME NTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,983, dated February18, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH GEoMEN, of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in RheumaticOintment,-of which the following is aspecification: l

The object of this invention is to provide a remedy for rheumatism andkindred diseases; audit consists in a compound composed of theingredientshereinafter'named. V

In carrying out my discovery I make use of the following substances, inabout the proportions specified, viz.: I take of prunes, one pound oilof cedar, half an ounce; chloride of sodium, two ounces; sal niter, oneounce; These substances are thoroughly mixed together by" adding asuitable quantity of cold Water, and crushing or grinding them in amill, or by other means combining them so that the salts named willpermeate the whole mass.

Having been a great sufierer myself from rheumatism'I tried manycompositions, popular remedies, with a view of obtaining relief,butwithout- 'efiect. I then'experimented in my own-way, andfinally-discovered this remedy, which I found a specific.

described.

JOSEPH GEOMEN.

Witnesses: V

T. B. MOSHER, G. SEDGWICK.

